Thursday, September 07, 2017

* One of the best writers in America wrote a wonderful and enlightening post about your president.

The Field Negro education series continues.

"It is insufficient to statethe obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America’s founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trump—a president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.

His political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” After his cabal of conspiracy theorists forced Barack Obama to present his birth certificate, Trump demanded the president’s college grades (offering $5 million in exchange for them), insisting that Obama was not intelligent enough to have gone to an Ivy League school, and that his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, had been ghostwritten by a white man, Bill Ayers.

It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy—the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue. So it was with Virginia slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them. So it was with marauding Klansmen organized against alleged rapes and other outrages. So it was with a candidate who called for a foreign power to hack his opponent’s email and who now, as president, is claiming to be the victim of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.”

In Trump, white supremacists see one of their own. Only grudgingly did Trump denounce the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, one of its former grand wizards—and after the clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Duke in turn praised Trump’s contentious claim that “both sides” were responsible for the violence.

To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. The repercussions are striking: Trump is the first president to have served in no public capacity before ascending to his perch. But more telling, Trump is also the first president to have publicly affirmed that his daughter is a “piece of ass.” The mind seizes trying to imagine a black man extolling the virtues of sexual assault on tape (“When you’re a star, they let you do it”), fending off multiple accusations of such assaults, immersed in multiple lawsuits for allegedly fraudulent business dealings, exhorting his followers to violence, and then strolling into the White House. But that is the point of white supremacy—to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification. Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible.

For Trump, it almost seems that the fact of Obama, the fact of a black president, insulted him personally. The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011. But the bloody heirloom ensures the last laugh. Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own. And this too is whiteness. “Race is an idea, not a fact,” the historian Nell Irvin Painter has written, and essential to the construct of a “white race” is the idea of not being a nigger. Before Barack Obama, niggers could be manufactured out of Sister Souljahs, Willie Hortons, and Dusky Sallys. But Donald Trump arrived in the wake of something more potent—an entire nigger presidency with nigger health care, nigger climate accords, and nigger justice reform, all of which could be targeted for destruction or redemption, thus reifying the idea of being white. Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president." [Read more]

I would like to add one more point of observation to Ta-Nehisi's great essay: Donald trump would not be sitting in the White House if the American people (with a little help from the Russians) didn't put him there. What does that say about us?

Coates writes so pretentiously to disguise his utter lack of critical thinking ability. And of course he is 100% projecting about Trump winning for being white. A white person with an intellect as mediocre as Coates’ would be lucky to get a column in a free small-town newspaper.

People who are called white are carrying amulets of whiteness within their invisible knapsacks. Those amulets passively give off an aura of microaggresive energy that disturbs the vibrations of vibrant Black Bodies. Sometimes people who are called white unzip their invisible knapsacks (it can be so hard to find the invisible zipper!), retrieve their amulets of whiteness & crack them open, which releases their eldritch energies in a highly focused macroaggresive wave that zaps Black Bodies.

And you ignorant fools thought it was just about people nudging other people on escalators! That’s surface-level stuff!

Not surprisingly there’s many white loony libtards and blacks who hang on every one of Ta-Nehisi’s written words and utterances as if they’re golden nuggets. Ta-Nehisi man got so sick of American whiteness that he ran off for white France. I guess the eldritch energies of their whiteness amulets are more benign than those in America now that Trump has cracked ours wide open.

He and countless other colored bloviators constantly bemoan and decry whites but refuse to live among non-whites in majority non-white nations.

Clark Westwood said...>African-Americans tend to love marginally intelligible overblown rhetoric. People like Coates who mine that vein are trying to sound all preacher-y and cool.<

I'd be surprised if significant numbers of African-Americans actually read his stuff. Maybe as a classroom assignment, and perhaps not even then.

I'm sure Tennessee Coates understands his role as black minstrel-writer pumping out verbiage as grist for the anti-white jihad mills of the left/liberal Jews and other urban coalition-de-fringy types who run the media and publishing world.

I would guess he's in it mainly for the money, using his writing to earn enough for his dream semi-retirement to a cottage in the Cotswolds or perhaps the Lake Country where he will raise pure-bred sheep and write his own new tales of the Once and Future King, Arthur of the Britons.

Bill said..."I'd be surprised if significant numbers of African-Americans actually read his stuff. Maybe as a classroom assignment, and perhaps not even then."

I agree that Genius T. Coates doesn’t have much of a black readership (a phrase which, frankly, I consider oxymoronic).

But I disagree that he understands his role as a black minstrel-writer. It always amazes me how many people just don’t understand blacks and leftists. They take all this crap and themselves very seriously. They lack irony, humor, and self-awareness. They are True Believers. It’s all about the feelz because ultimately, it’s all about them. All the time. They are narcissists.

No offense meant. I honestly think you are probably too bright and too lacking in narcissistic tendencies to understand these people whereas I was raised by a narcissist leftist. Nothing they say or do surprises me.

That we fucked up and didn't believe Republicans would cheat so hard. Next time we have to factor Kobach and the Republican governors who will stop at nothing to suppress the minority and Democratic vote into our election calculations. We have to do way better than them to win, and they win with millions fewer votes than us. We know this. This shouldn't be a problem, as they are mostly stupid and unappealing but we were too complacent this time and didn't want to believe anyone, much less 62 million assholes, would vote for anyone as repugnant as Fergus. After eight years of having a president who could speak in complete sentences and made policy that makes sense for the progress of the country, we wrongly assumed that even the Pig People would want their lives to keep improving, but Pig People are Pig People and they will damage their own lives in a heartbeat to make liberals cry. We will put them down, politically. Hopefully this time, but given demographics, sooner or later.

Even if the success of Barack Obama ushered in the reign of the monster Trump, I'm still glad we elected him, though I was A PUMA at the time.

Barack Obama was a transformational president and a truly beautiful cat. We loved him. We still love him and his dear family. A truly excellent American.

But, yeah the whole thing about white people.

So I was invited to join this bizarre website which happens to be dominated by serious conservatives. Most of my friends who have been so invited have bailed because they are so sick of the sycophantic reinforcement of the hardcore conservatives with their tired racist memes. For fuck's sake! There is even an Aryan Nation, full-on KKK guy who posts on this site and the other more moderate conservatives actually talk to him.

But I am trying to stick it out. Trying to build bridges of understanding.

But any time I mention white privilege, they come after me in lock-step. One idiot posted, "Confessions of an ex-NFL Fan." Of course I thought it was a simple rant about the high price of cable, the shameful behavior of the San Diego Chargers owners or something of that ilk.

Boy was I dead wrong. The fucking son-of-a-bitch was ranting about current players who are honoring our sacrificial hero Colin Kaepernick. So I said, "You dickheads are saying that black lives really don't matter?" They're like, "You're missing the point." It's getting very old, super fast.

Let me tell you about my first experience with the white hatred. In the early 1960s, the Jewish intelligentsia that Roger Revelle and Harold Urey had sought out to attract to the the new University of California flagship, UCSD, had been more or less accepted by the liberal and academic elements of North La Jolla. They had turned on its head the old Jim Crow era real estate unspoken taboo and allowed Jewish families to buy homes. But I had never seen a black person except at the airport or downtown. They were usually shoeshine boys or custodians or private citizens of course.

So some enterprising young black, (professor possibly?) buys a home in my own father's neighborhood, right on the next street down the descending cul-de-sac, securing a loan for over forty thousand dollars in 1965, no small task when the average salary was closer to ten thousand per annum. We're talking a view of the canyons by La Jolla Shores.

Black sister and her little brother show up at my all-white school elementary school. I'm in the second grade. We had Jews. They were okay. But some little brat starts calling them niggers. I had never heard the word in my life! But my little classmates soon took up the chorus, calling these beautiful children niggers, simply because their parents and older siblings had taught them to do so. My mom told me in no uncertain terms to never use that word.

Good essay that explains why the country elected president dumb ass. Then again as is proven by posters like Bill and James this is one dumb country so why not have one of their own represent them. It burned them up being represented by a smart brotha so they reverted back to form. These are the same dumbasses that believe racoon hair is playing some kind of 4D chess. No wonder they diss the article so much, they can't understand it.

Personally, I can't stand T'Nussy Coates. I couldn't stand him when he would frequent blogs before his Atlantic gig and I began to like him even less after his fear-laden last book.His case for reparations was interesting but he's been living off of that ever since.He seems like someone who was teased by both Blacks and whites and had his lunch money stolen from him by little girls.I have a female friend who refuses to read anything written by him because she says he looks like an out of shape, ugly, nerd and his perspective is dictated by that.

The First few comments to this post speaks volumes. What was so hard about following his essay? You might not agree with it, but to say the writing confused u or was hard to comprehend, speaks more to your lack of a proper education and focus than it does to his writing skills.

One observation about Coates' writing: You can take pretty much any two sentences and interchange them and it won’t make any difference at all. None. And you could do that 100 times and yes, the article will be unreadable and dull but absolutely no more than it is right now, which is to say completely unreadable and head-ache producing dull.

I included Trump stereotyping Mexicans as rapists in a conversation with a conservative friend about why Trump is racist. She said, Trump said they don't send the good ones. She had a point. I think Mexicans, legal or illegal, are great people but Trump didn't say all Mexicans are bad. It is what it is. Don't let Trump derangement syndrome blind you. Hillary was less racist when it comes to domestic civil rights, but she got donations from institutionalized racism private prison lobbyists, stole billions from Haiti, and was key in supporting the genocide of darker Libyans. Keep supporting the false Russia hack narrative, and the corrupt war monger neocon wing of the Democratic Party that cheats progressives and only represents their corporate donors, and Trump will be a two term president. We have two Republican parties and the supposedly conservative one has the most people against immoral interventionism wars. The way to beat Trump is to nomiinate someone who isn't worse than him. The Democrats aren't in charge to cover up up their corruption anymore and that's a good thing.

Imran Awan's wife, also on the payroll as a another Democratic "IT staffer", has a deal to return from Pakistan and testify. Imran had his whole family and friends on the payroll to circumvent staffer pay limits and Wasserman Schultzs listed him as a consultant after he was banned as a staffer. With Chris Wray as FBI Director, instead of Comey, Debbie Wasserman Schultz could be in big trouble. Imran Awan knew her password. At different times, emails were stored on the offsite servers of three different private companies, including the one that did the "Russia hack" investigation. The DNC never allowed the government to see their "hacked" server. But the media will let you continue to think "the Russians did it" even though the download speeds were too fast for a remote hack. The emails were copied locally. Put your anti Trump faith in the Russia hack lie and you are in for a very rude awakening.

I heard some lying asshole on the Stephanie Miller show the other day say all Trump has to do is tell the NSA to look for the hack transmission. Actually, the VIPS group told Obama that while he was still in office. And then Obama announced there is no proof that the Russians hacked the emails. The NSA, who would have proof if the Russians did it, is only "moderately confident' the Russians did it. Iraq has WMDs deja vu.

The deep state swings a big one but there is a lot of pressure on Trump to expose the Russia hack lie and some of the other Democratic Party corruption. If he really wants to drain the swamp he should also go after the Bush Administration criminals too. There is no pressure for him to do that though. Obama got away with protecting them. Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. If war criminals like Hillary are convicted of security clearance violations and Dick Cheney for torture, that would at least be something. But Obama even paid for Rumsfeld's defense against torture charges, with your money. And it sure looks like Debbie Wasserman Schultz paid off her blackmailers with your money.

Even MSNBC admits that it doesn't look good for AIPAC whore Menendez. Like much of the media, they leave out his party affiliation in their coverage. The judge for the corruption trial has been extremely impressive in some past political corruption trials. He has admonished prosecutors for notching wins instead of going for appropriately severe sentences. By the way, Trump is a racist, but don't forget that I predicted he will keep a form of DACA. The media downplayed the covert CIA support of ISIS but you can look it up and the declassified Pentagon report that tells who the anti Assad rebels were if you want to. You can also look up the VIPS analysis that debunks the Russia hack lie if you want to. Or you can continue to live in the alternate reality that the media creates for you. The one where we have wars because Issac Newton's first and third laws of motion don't apply.

If the CIA backed ISIS to fight other enemies, well welcome to the world, Limpaw. It isn't the first time and it surely won't be the last. dumbass dubya's cluster fuck in Iraq is most likely responsible for the beginnings of ISIS and other terrorists groups in that region. Someone had to fill the void left by Hussein's removal. The one thread preventing Iran from becoming the dominant power in the M E was removed by a fucking moron with no idea what he was doing and the damage he was causing to that area.

"To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies."

Oh, no. Trump didn't do that, YOU did it. You did it with decades of crime and parasitism and hostility, culminating in slamming White people just for being themselves—the very thing you condemned when you were allegedly being "judged by the color of your skin" when it was always the content of your character that we despised.

And when you came down to condemning "fucking White males", you united Whites across boundaries of class and culture. YOU cracked that talisman open. All Trump did was ride the wave of energy. It wouldn't have existed without you. You have sown the wind, and now you reap the whirlwind.

NBC did a story earlier this week where they identified him as a Republican.

Payback for all the times Fake Noize identified crooked wingnuts as Dems.

If you fuckers are too stoopid to know Menendez is a Dem, you have no business wasting oxygen.

Wingnut congressman from Pennsylvania admitted an affair with a close friend after he was named in her divorce suit. The Drumpfuck backer is 64 and his close personal POA was 32.

The wife of a Drumpfuck lawyer was caught flagrante delecto with a trustee in the back seat of her car fucking each other's brains out. The woman's car also included numerous items of contraband for the trustee to take back inside the min. sec joint. They were parked right outside. Wingnut, fauxknee kristian moralists. Gotta love 'em. No one else does.

Obama was just the cure for the malaise of the dumbass dubya rape of America. Obama had the most obstructionist congress ever. Obama had one of the most racist congresses ever. And yet, the Master was able to turn around the economy and get equal rights for more Americans all the while dragging that racist congress around everywhere he went.

Obama's economy is still going fairly strong, even though drumpfuck takes credit for it.

Even today wingnuts are still lying about Obama's effects on this nation. If Obama was as bad as whiny whitey wingnuts whine about, why does the public vote overwhelmingly in favor of Obama's policies that wingnuts vow to erase?

Anonymous Wesley R said...America's whooteemoos are the dumbest people in the world. Instead of studying the issues they rely on commercials and talkers on television and radio to tell them how to think and vote.>>>>>>>>>>

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